Attorney Veronica A. Richards was presented with the 2019 Allegheny County Bar Association Professionalism Award during the Civil Litigation Section’s annual Luncheon with the Judges on October 25, 2019. The Professionalism Award is given annually to a distinguished member of the profession who has been active in the bar association, has a minimum of fifteen […]
It would be reasonable to expect that victims of medical malpractice would be motivated by anger or a desire to seek revenge on the guilty. However, in my experience, anger is rarely the emotion that dominates my clients who are victims of medical malpractice. Almost without exception, the emotion that overwhelms my clients is guilt. […]
A recently published study out of Johns Hopkins concluded that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States. As I watched the sixty seconds of national coverage dedicated to this revelation it occurred to me- this isn’t really newly discovered information but yet another confirmation of the fact that over […]
Anyone who does medical malpractice litigation has heard the following: “If it’s not documented in the medical record, it was not done.” The omission of critical facts can be a significant finding that supports liability. Although there is really little to prevent a health care provider from testifying that an omitted fact from the record […]
The other day I read an article about a study done by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality that estimated 1.3 million fewer patients were injured or victims of some form of medical malpractice from 2010 to 2013 because of the great focus placed on efforts to reduce surgery site infections, medication issues, and […]
